Campylobacter fetus Outbreak in Montreal, Quebec, Canada: A Retrospective Analysis
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Abstract
Background. Campylobacter fetus is more likely to cause bacteremia and other extra-intestinal infections than any other species of Campylobacter. To our knowledge, only 2 outbreaks of C. fetus involving a person-to-person transmission are reported in the literature, both of them from adult to newborns. This study describes a space-time aggregate of C. fetus documented in 2014–2015 at a teaching hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Methods. A descriptive retrospective study of all the cases of C. fetus at Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal-Hôpital Saint-Luc from 2014 to 2015 was performed by reviewing medical records. The Montreal Public Health Department also contacted the patients by phone in order to carry out an epidemiological investigation. Strains were analyzed by the Quebec Public Health Laboratory to confirm their identification at the genus and species level, and determine their pulsovar using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis with SmaI and KpnI enzymes. Results. During a 16-month period ranging from March 2014 to July 2015, 14 patients presenting a C. fetus infection were identified, and 11 of them had a new pulvosar designed p 31. The patients were all men having sex with men (MSM) and 10/11 reported having at-risk sexual activities during the incubation period, like visiting gay bathhouses or sex clubs, and resort to Internet-recruited sex partners. Seven of eleven were HIV-positive and 8/11 had a prior history of STDs other than HIV. Few other risk factors were identified in these patients (2/11 had a possible food exposure, 1/11 had an animal contact, 1/11 had a recent travel history). Two of the patients presented bacteremia, and one of these two suffered from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. Even if he was cured from the infection, he died less than 3 months later from terminal kidney disease precipitated by the events after refusing dialysis. Conclusion. This C. fetus outbreak is the first aggregate presumed to be caused by a sexual transmission in a MSM community. Concordantly to literature, the infection seems associated to an excess of bacteremia and morbidity compared to historic controls of other Campylobacter species. Disclosures. All authors: No reported disclosures
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".